From: Tavian Barnes <taviana...@tavianator.com>
About -H/-L, POSIX says
> If the referenced file does not exist, the file information and type
> shall be for the link itself.
so we need to fall back from stat() to lstat() if errno indicates a
broken link.
---
find.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/find.c b/find.c
index f96c05b..d907594 100644
--- a/find.c
+++ b/find.c
@@ -223,6 +223,19 @@ static struct {
char print; /* whether we will need -print when parsing */
} gflags;
+static int
+find_stat(const char *path, int is_root, struct stat *st)
+{
+ if (gflags.l || (gflags.h && is_root)) {
+ int ret = stat(path, st);
+ if (ret == 0 || (errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOTDIR)) {
+ return ret;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return lstat(path, st);
+}
+
/*
* Primaries
*/
@@ -660,7 +673,7 @@ get_newer_arg(char *argv[], union extra *extra)
{
struct stat st;
- if (stat(*argv, &st))
+ if (find_stat(*argv, 1, &st))
eprintf("failed to stat '%s':", *argv);
extra->i = st.st_mtime;
@@ -944,7 +957,7 @@ find(char *path, struct findhist *hist)
len = strlen(path) + 2; /* \0 and '/' */
- if ((gflags.l || (gflags.h && !hist) ? stat(path, &st) : lstat(path,
&st)) < 0) {
+ if (find_stat(path, !hist, &st) < 0) {
weprintf("failed to stat %s:", path);
return;
}
--
2.19.1
